Politics
2027: APC shifts presidential, governorship primaries
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has postponed its presidential and governorship primaries by one week.
The party moved the presidential primary to May 23, 2026, and the governorship primary to May 21, 2026, from the earlier dates of May 15 and May 16, respectively.
According to the APC, the adjustment aligns with a revised timetable for its 2027 general election activities.
APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Duro Meseko, disclosed this at the end of the party’s 186th National Working Committee (NWC) meeting held in Abuja on Thursday.
“We hereby present the new revised timetable and schedule of activities for the conduct of the 2027 general elections to the press,” he said.
Meseko added that the NWC adopted both direct and consensus modes for selecting candidates for elective positions.
“In this 186th meeting of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress, we adopted the mode of primaries as provided in the Electoral Act: direct and consensus mode, with a caveat that members are at liberty to pick,” he stated.